Cross curriculum search through the GeoSkills Ontology
Abstract:
Interactive Geometry is gaining momentum; it is becoming a core part
of mathematics curriculum in several countries and is rec- ognized
as a ma jor experimentation possibility for the discovery and acquisition
of mathematical principles (see, e.g., [1]). Interactive geome- try
constructions? however, are scattered in separate, tool-, nation-,
and language-bound, communities. The aim of the pro ject Intergeo,
an EU eContentPlus pro ject, is to break the barriers that cause
this scatter by providing a shared file format and a multilingual
platform to share the existing assets. In this article, we focus
on the search and annotation process of the platform that crosses
the boundaries of national curriculum and language communities. This
is done with the help of an ontology, the GeoSkills on- tology, which
catalogues the relevant competencies, topics, and educational- contexts
in a multilingual way. We explain how the ontological nature helps
both in management and in search-engine fuzziness.
Published:
Proceedings of SE@M 08 Workshop, 2008